Michael Longley: Homecoming

Poem Title

Original Publication

CP Page no

Homecoming

Gorse Fires, Basingstoke: Secker & Warburg, 1991

171

Length / Form 17 lines, narrative

Allusion to Classical figure Odysseus

Relationship to Classical text Translation / Adaptation Odyssey 13. 93-119

Comment See S. Broom, ‘Learning about Dying: Mutability and the Classics in the Poetry of Michael Longley’ New Hibernia Review Volume 6, Number 1, Spring 2002, pp. 94-112 esp. p. 100.